I'm fairly certain that everyone in the vicinity of a bug bounty program is aware that interest in a program can be dialed up by simply adjusting award amounts.

I'm fairly certain that everyone in the vicinity of a bug bounty program is aware that interest in a program can be dialed up by simply adjusting award amounts. If you look here, Slack just recently increased theirs: https://hackerone.com/slack/bounty_table_versions?type=team&change=2020-08-07T21%3A17%3A54.807Z https://hackerone.com/slack/bounty_table_versions?type=team&...